Science 8
Lesson 10:
HEATING WATER-
AN EXPERIMENT
SHORT REVIEW
Q1. Which process of physical change gives out heat?
Q2. Name three processes of physical change that require
heat.
Q3. Describe what happens to particles in a beaker of water
when the water is heated.
Let’s check your answers:
Q1. Which process of physical change gives out heat?
Answer:
Condensation
Let’s check your answers:
Q2. Name three processes of physical change that require heat.
Answer:
Q2. Three processes that need heat include boiling, melting and evaporation.
Let’s check your answers:
Q3. Describe what happens to particles in a beaker of water when
the water is heated.
Answer:
When water is heated the particles gain energy from the heat and begin to
vibrate and move faster, they might even get enough energy to change to a
gas.
LESSON
PURPOSE/INTENTION
This lesson is about reading diagrams and graphs and how important
this is for learning and when answering questions in Science.
The lesson is about physical changes. We want to be sure we know and
understand that physical changes require energy in the form of heat
and that this can be explained by the particle model.
LESSON LANGUAGE
PRACTICE
The diagram below shows how scientists
produce a graph from data in a table.
D
Describe what the graph means
in words.
Let’s check your answers:
Q1. Describe what the graph means in words.
Q1. The graph shows that as children get older, they grow taller.
LESSON ACTIVITY: Component A
LESSON ACTIVITY: Component A
LESSON ACTIVITY: Component B
Answer the following
questions in your answer
sheet:
Let’s check your answers:
Q1. What do you think has happened in the last 4 minutes?
Q1. The temperature is rising rapidly.
Q2. What might you see happening in the first 4 minutes?
Q2. The ice is melting.
Q3. What do you think would happen if the students went on heating the water?
Q3. The water would probably start to boil.
LESSON ACTIVITY: Component C
Read out the following
questions and ask students
to answer in the space on
their worksheet.
Let’s check your answers:
Q1. Describe the temperature in the first 4 minutes while the ice is melting.
Q1. The temperature is staying the same.
Q2. Describe what is happening according to the graph in words.
Q2. When you first start heating the ice the temperature stays the same for 4 minutes and
then when theice melts the temperature starts to go up quickly.
Q3. Use your understanding of the particle model to explain why the temperature does not
rise in thefirst 4 minutes.
Q3. For the ice to change to liquid water the particles need heat to give them enough energy to move
about a bit and become a liquid so while that is happening the temperature doesn’t rise.
LESSON CONCLUSION
TIP:
The focus of this lesson was to use an experiment
and graphs of the data to explain the physical
changes of state using the particle model.
LESSON CONCLUSION
Did you find the questions in B easier than the questions in
C. Why?
Q2. Did you find this lesson helped you to understand the
particle model better? Why?
Key Idea
•Trophic level is defined as the position of an organism in the
food chain and ranges from a value of 1 for primary producers
to 5 for marine mammals and humans. The method to determine
the trophic level of a consumer is to add one level to the mean
trophic level of its prey.
